"regulation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The rule was to have taken effect on Feb. 17, but had been set aside for 60 days as the Bush administration reviewed last-minute regulations issued by the Clinton administration.
- "We want to completely understand and review what was a last-minute regulation, and this motion allows us to continue to do that while the lawsuit is ongoing," Claire Buchan, a White House spokeswoman, said.
- After the inaugural ceremony, Mr. Bush quickly got down to business, issuing a series of executive orders - including one that sought to delay, review and roll back some of the last-minute regulations of the Clinton administration - even before his post-inaugural luncheon with Congressional leaders was over.
- Down to business: As an initial measure, Obama seeks a 120-day halt to legal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, and halts all the last-minute new regulations the Bush administration was putting through, so that he can review them.
- One of his first acts was to suspend a half-dozen of the Clinton administration's environmental rules, which Mr. Bush's people persist in labeling "last-minute" regulations, though most had been in the works for years.
- Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for the Bush transition team, said, "As with all last-minute regulations, we will review them upon assuming the presidency on Jan. 20."
- Within minutes of taking the Oath of Office on January 20, Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, issued an order suspending last-minute federal regulations pushed through by outgoing President George W. Bush, planning to review everything still pending.
- Bush Biding His Time George W. Bush and his aides are waiting, with varying degrees of patience, as the Clinton team churns out last-minute regulations that cannot be easily reversed by the new administration.
- How many of these last-minute regulations will become law?
- "They've been busy beavers in the administration with these last-minute executive orders and last-minute regulations," Mr. Fleischer said.
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